Rui Yasue (born in Nagoya, Japan, currently based in Naarm and Cairo, Egypt) is an artist whose practice spans lens-based and text-based development. His interdisciplinary creative approach is intertwined with previous experience as a freelance journalist in Egypt, Palestine, and Iraq for Japanese media, as well as a commercial photographer in Japan and France.

Central to Yasue’s artistic practice is a juxtaposition of universality and individuality, underlining stereotypes, identity and power relations. He invites audience to visit a common ground shared with the unexpected ‘other’. In particular, his work subverts the prevailing constructed ideas on the Middle East.